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The Rescue Company No. 1 transformed into a squad that handles rope rescues as well as underwater search and recovery. Today, the FDNY Rescue Companies are now responsible for missions such as rope rescue, urban search and rescue, trench rescue, fire and explosion rescue, and elevator rescue. [3] [4] [5]
Trench rescue is a specialized form of rescue, a subset of confined space rescue. Trench rescue involves shoring up the sides of a trench , and digging a trapped worker out of a collapsed ditch. Trench rescue is one of the most dangerous rescue operations to complete.
Confined space rescue is a subset of technical rescue operations that involves the rescue and recovery of victims trapped in a confined space or in a place only accessible through confined spaces, such as underground vaults, storage silos, storage tanks, or sewers. A warning label on a storage tank, indicating that it is a confined space.
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These often require specialised rescue squads as they exceed the capabilities of other members of the fire service or emergency medical services (EMS). In the United States , technical rescues will often have multiple jurisdictions operating together to effect the rescue, and will often use the Incident Command System to manage the incident and ...
1 squad truck/rescue truck, 3 pumpers/rescue trucks, 1 aerial truck/tower truck, 1 district chief unit, high rise unit (if the fire is in a high-rise building in south command) Working fire: 1st alarm assignment, upgrade: 1 rescue truck (RIT), 1 aerial truck/tower truck, 1 squad/rescue truck, 1 platoon chief unit, 1 air & light unit 2nd Alarm fire
NFPA 1670 (Standard on Operations and Training for Technical Search and Rescue Incidents) is a standard published by the National Fire Protection Association.The standard identifies and establishes levels of functional capability for conducting operations at technical search and rescue incidents while minimizing threats to rescuers. [1]